I had a thankfully very brief, and hopefully not recurring fantasy about sucking all the blood and digestible protein out of Glen Beck and strapping his lifeless corpse to my back to protect against all the forces of evil and woo. And maybe going after Sylvia Browne next.

Say you have an orc in an adjacent 5Ã—5 square, and I wanted to cast Otilukeâ€™s Icy Sphere on himâ€¦it doesnâ€™t mean the Orcâ€™s hit points necessarily disappear immediately. It could mean you came up with a better way of stabbing him with your +1 flaming longsword.

Siveambrai single-handedly defended the social sciences. Click here to read it all cuz it’s long but worth it. Here’s her TL;DR:

I guess the tl;dr of this is donâ€™t mess with a PhD student whoâ€™s favorite class was philosophy of science :D

Finally, James Fox has something worth copying and pasting for any trolls that drop by Skepchick:

Perhaps you could start your own bog where your goals and arguments are the topics of discussion. Your attempts at discussion here have been tedious, lacking in substance, and clearly confrontational for no good reason. So if your goal is to destroy atheism Iâ€™m not sure why youâ€™re expending the energy to accomplish nothing more than irritating some nice folk who enjoy civil productive discussion. A trait you will notice is fairly consistent here is that people understand the difference between an opinion and a position based on the best available evidence. A lot of our discussions are about how we deal with our own views when we are confronted with evidence that indicates we are wrong. Part of the skeptical world view is a willingness to admit you are wrong and adjust your views when you learn new information or the available facts show you are wrong. The process of adjusting your views to fit the available facts or admitting that an opinion absent supporting facts or evidence is nothing more than a personal possession, often with little value in the skeptical marketplace, seems to have escaped you. You may not think you are a troll but you have trollish behaviors and will be treated accordingly or ignored by many of the regular posters here as long as you persist in those behaviors.

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